Annual Lecture Series (in-person)
Lunchtime Talks (in-person)
Conferences (in-person)
Online-Only Events
Did Leibniz Anticipate Gödel’s Incompleteness Proof? Nicholas Rescher, U. of Pittsburgh Abstract: Kurt Gödel felt sure that Leibniz had anticipated his monumental demonstration of the provability-incompleteness of axiomatic arithmetic. The paper seeks to clarify to what extent Gödel’s suspicions were correct.
What can Neuroimaging do for Psychology? Adina Roskies, Sr. Visiting Fellow Dartmouth University Abstract: The colorful brain maps produced by neuroimaging have captured the popular imagination with the promise of yielding up the secrets of the mind. Some critics claim that the attention is misplaced: neuroimages cannot tell us anything of interest about our psychology. […]
The Emergence of the Covering Law Model and What We Might Learn from It Fons Dewulf, Visiting Fellow Ghent University Abstract: Until 1948 scientific explanation was not a topic of interest in logical empiricist philosophy. After the publication of Hempel’s and Oppenheim’s “Studies in the Logic of Explanation” in 1948 it gradually became a major […]
Epistemology of Science aims to encourage collaboration between the disciplines of epistemology and philosophy of science. Participants from both disciplines will engage in both first-order discussion of issues at the intersection of epistemology and philosophy of science and meta-level discussion of how the two fields can productively interact. The workshop will feature keynote addresses by […]
Epistemology of Science aims to encourage collaboration between the disciplines of epistemology and philosophy of science. Participants from both disciplines will engage in both first-order discussion of issues at the intersection of epistemology and philosophy of science and meta-level discussion of how the two fields can productively interact. The workshop will feature keynote addresses by […]
Unifying the Scientific Concept of Self-Control: Self-Control as Task Hacking Juan Pablo Bermudez, Visiting Fellow U. Externado Colombia Abstract: There are two apparently irreconcilable aspects of the scientific concept of self-control: the moment-to-moment state self-control and the stable trait of self-control. Deploying state self-control requires exerting cognitive effort, whereas the latter is linked with long-term wellbeing benefits but seems […]
Being Human, Being Homo Sapiens Denis Walsh, University of Toronto ABSTRACT: Neo-Aristotelian ethical naturalism attempts to characterise human moral goodness as a natural phenomenon. It posits a substantive, essentialist, normative concept of human nature as an explanatory primitive. Human nature, according to neo-Aristotelianism, is an instance of a generalised organismal nature. Opponents object that no […]
On Dynamical Laws as Guides to What is Fundamental Vera Matarese, Center Visiting Fellow Abstract: Are we entitled to read off our fundamental ontology from our dynamical laws? Normally two different replies can be found in the literature. North (2013), for instance, answers in the affirmative. According to her, dynamical laws relate what is […]
The Aspectuality of Perceptual Experience: Learning / Knowing How to See Arnon Cahen Center Visiting Fellow, Bar-Ilan U. in Israel Abstract: In this talk, I will be concerned with the aspectuality of conscious perceptual experience. Aspectuality is a property of perceptual experience that can colloquially be expressed by noting that (conscious) perception is not merely of something or […]